Desire strips the Other’s body of movement and garb to reveal pure flesh

Evidence

Thus ontology teaches us that desire is originally a desire of being and that it is characterized as the free lack of being. But it teaches us also that desire is a relation with a concrete existent in the midst of the world and that this existent is conceived as a type of in-itself; it teaches us that the relation of the for-itself to this desired in-itself is appropriation. We are, then, in the presence of a double determination of desire: on the one hand, desire is determined as a desire to be a certain being, which is the in-itself-for-itself and whose existence is ideal; on the other hand, desire is determined in the vast majority of cases as a relation with a contingent and concrete in-itself which it has the project of appropriating. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1363 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Intimacy strips disguises to expose the other’s flesh as pure contingency — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 897; Desiring perception treats objects as flesh that reveals one’s own body; Desire singles out undifferentiated, nearly motionless flesh as the image of pure facticity (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Desire singles out undifferentiated, nearly motionless flesh as the image of pure facticity #corroborates (0.95)
• Desiring perception treats objects as flesh that reveals one’s own body #expands (0.85)
• Possession in desire is a double reciprocal incarnation of both bodies #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 978
• Desire has a double determination toward being and toward appropriating concrete objects #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1363
• Desire radically alters both the body’s lived being and the correlated world #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 980
• The desire to possess aims at unity with the object #expands (0.75)